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Suhr-Sytsma, Mandy; Brown, Shan-Estelle – Writing Center Journal, 2011
In 1998, Catherine Prendergast observed that, although composition scholars sometimes identify a subject by race or ethnicity, "the legacy of racism in this country which participates in sculpting all identities--white included--is more often than not absent from the analysis of that writer's linguistic capabilities or strategies." Since then,…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Laboratories, Tutoring, Tutors
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Brown, Patricia A.; Gross, Charles – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2011
An increasing number of veterans and military students are seeking to complete degrees online and through enrollment at campuses across the nation. Their increased numbers present some unique challenges and opportunities. Post 9/11, Chapter 33 GI Bill funding is enticing more institutions to look at the veteran and military population as a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Veterans Education, Military Personnel, Veterans
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Gosselin, Colette – Multicultural Perspectives, 2011
Teaching a course in multicultural education at a largely white, middle-class, suburban liberal arts college has its challenges. Among those challenges is a prevailing naivete among the student population regarding the role sociocultural structures have in creating the kinds of opportunities that afford social privileges; likewise, the students…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Student Diversity, Cultural Differences
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Hairston, Kimetta R.; Strickland, Martha J. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2011
What occurs when an African American woman professor and a European American woman professor review narrative data and interpret what the students write differently? This research illustrates how race and the experience of two ethnically different female researchers impact data analysis of teachers' interactions with narratives of personal past…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Content Analysis, Researchers, Females
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Custin, Richard E.; Demas, John C.; Lampe, Marc; Custin, Colette L. – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2013
Undergraduate business law courses typically utilize traditional textbooks organized by topic. Individual chapters, address the usual topics including contracts, torts, the court system and ethics. An innovative approach to facilitating a business law course involves segregating sections of the course into common business disciplines. Rather than…
Descriptors: Law Related Education, Business, Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education
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Britton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
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McClendon, Bill; Burke, Debra D.; Willey, Lorrie – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2010
Negotiation skills are vital for concluding international treaties on subjects ranging from arms agreements, and rights in outer space to trade agreements. Yet the importance of being able to negotiate effectively is not limited to international treaties or crises situations. Using negotiation exercises represents a student-centered approach to…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Reflection, Data Collection, Perspective Taking
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Wood, Denise; Borg, Tracey – Studying Teacher Education, 2010
This paper examines the transition that classroom teachers experience moving into the academy as teacher educators, considering the change in professional identity and the subsequent alignment of situational and substantial selves. We outline the findings of a qualitative case study that utilised self-study and teacher narrative to explore the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Career Change, Teacher Educators
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Juujarvi, Soile; Myyry, Liisa; Pesso, Kaija – Journal of Moral Education, 2010
The aim of this study was to investigate relationships between care and justice reasoning, dispositional empathy variables and meta-ethical thinking among 128 students from a university of applied sciences. The measures were Skoe's Ethic of Care Interview, the Defining Issues Test, Davis's Interpersonal Reactivity Index and Meta-Ethical…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Perspective Taking, Ethics, Empathy
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Serrano-Velarde, Kathia – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2010
What happens when management consultants enter the academic arena and offer their services to universities? In the following article, we examine this question by drawing on findings from a qualitative study based on a series of 30 interviews with senior management consultants and academic managers in Germany. The aim of this explorative study is,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Administration, Consultants
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Rao, Deepa; Stupans, Ieva – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2012
Role-play, in which learners act out roles in case scenarios, appears to be used across a broad range of discipline areas to address learning across the cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains. This paper describes the development of a prospective typology of role-play learning opportunities derived from role-play scenarios used at one large…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Instruction, College Faculty, Guidelines
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Sanders, Harlow Stewart – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
In this article, the author shares his experience with Burent Arel, an established composer of orchestral, chamber, and classical electronic music. At first, the author found the music of the 20th century deeply disturbing. Yet, Professor Arel converted him and his skepticism into evangelical fervor. Finally understanding the role of the artist in…
Descriptors: Music, Artists, Perspective Taking, Western Civilization
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Romsdahl, Rebecca J.; Hill, Michael J. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
In graduate education, there is often a great divide between classroom learning and research endeavors. Using learning community (LC) values and strategies, our goal is to build stronger and more meaningful ties between these two aspects of graduate education so that students see them as complimentary learning rather than separate components. This…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Theory Practice Relationship, Models, Learning Activities
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Lundegard, Iann; Wickman, Per-Olof – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2009
Traditionally the individual "I" is described as a relatively stable entity that is carried from one situation to another. However, a growing body of research has argued for a more flexible approach to identity. This article looks at identity as something situated and transformed in social transaction. The analysis made here examines three aspects…
Descriptors: College Students, Identification, Perspective Taking, Sustainable Development
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Barber, Sarah J.; Franklin, Nancy; Naka, Makiko; Yoshimura, Hiroki – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Source monitoring is made difficult when the similarity between candidate sources increases. The current work examines how individual differences in social intelligence and perspective-taking abilities serve to increase source similarity and thus negatively impact source memory. Strangers first engaged in a cooperative storytelling task. On each…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Memory, Individual Differences, Perspective Taking
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